Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

6n06H,VOrlDg 20 leave the vines aS
equally balanced IS possible, and
where several have started out from
the ground [ remove sill but one or
two. Among our visitors q great
many expressed their astonishment
at the productiveness of the vines,
and wondered why theirs do not do
better; and upon inquiry Hound that
IN nearly every case their vines had
been left to -it-as.you' please sys-
tem.-TCor. Practical Farmer.
Spirits and Flour From Potatoes.
Consul General Mueller, under date
of April Is, 1887, sends the following:
Germany, with g. population Of A.
600, 900, raises g. quantity Of pota-
toes far beyond It's wants as an arti-
Gle OF food. Its large portion of sur
plus produce is being distilled into
spirits known as observation-disclosures.
The potato distilleries occupy q
prominent and important place in
the constellation of the national in
dustries, and are encouraged and as
sisted by the allowance of great ex-
port privileges. The smaller portion Of
the surplus is reduced to flour or pota-
to meal. Prices potatoes are lowand
producers complain Of the unprofit-
ableness Of the potato culture. Ta-
ole potatoes Of first quality are being
sold at an average price of 81 marks
up to 3 marks per 100 kilo-
grams, or 220 pounds. The
average price of inferior qualities, to
be used for distilling and -four MAX
ing, is 2 marks per 100 Kilograms; $50
cents, or 121bcents for an American
bushel of SO pounds wejght.) Potato
-four (Kraft1nehD is produced at q
large rate; its production has con-
siderably increased during thelast dec
ade, owing to it's use for multifarious
mechanical purposes heretofore un-
known. 1t Is used IN considerable
quantities by sausage. makers, bakers,
confectioners; also for cooking and
powdering purposes. Textile and
weaving establishments manufacture
ing "Zanella'' cotton prints, and
other fabrics of silk and cotton use it
to size and strengthen the threads in
the wool and to give it a glossy ap-
pearance. It's use in large quantities
for the manufacture of Starch and DO
tato sugar and white syrup is general
ly known. The establishments man
ufacturiug alizarine and aniline are
also using an extract from potato
flour called "dextrine." The Quanti-
ty Of potato flour annually produced,
imported, or exported is not to be as
certained, for the reason that the Of
fetal statistics fail to give q separate
account thereof, but mention kraft
mehl only in combination with
starch, arrowroot, and powder. The
import duty imposed upon potato
-four is 8 marks per 100 Kilograms
($2.30,) just about one-half of the
present market price of the article.
The average price Of potato -four per
100 Kilograms (220 pounds) is 18
marks ($4.28.) Potato flour is prin-
cipally manufactured in Northern
Germany, Silesia, Hanover, and East
Prussia, in which provinces the sys-
tenn OF large land possessions Of feu-
DIAL origin affords greater advantages
for mass production.
Upland Rice.
Upland or white rice is coming
rapidly forward as q profitable
crop for poor pine land. Mr.. Peters,
OF Lawtey, La, says the Sugar Bowl,
is raising this crop successfully on
very thin, poor land. He sows the
seed from May to July, 1t requires q
summer heat to terminate, and if
sowed earlier than May often fails to
come up. Mr.. Peters prefers the
virgin soil; it liz one of the few crops
that bring good results on poor pine
land the first year. The land is brok-
en- by pillow and narrowed thoroughly,
the seed is then scattered broadcast,
one and half bushels per acre and
narrowed in. He harvests it with q
common grain cradle in August and
September, binding it in tolerably
small sheaves. This is in order to let
it cure quickly. since the summer is
the rainy season here, and any forage
crops need to be housed or we'll
stacked at once. After being cut the
rice sprouts from the roots and af-
lords good pasturage at time when
the piney woods grasses are why
and dry. The cattle like it. it gives q
good milk flow and remains fresh and
green three months. Threshing is
done at leisure with a fail. The lack
"a d uUill1lS Hill is Z" uLdWUHCk W 1GS
production. II enough could be
raised 10 one section to warrant the
establishment of a mill it would rem
der rice-growing more profitable on
this account, and MIR. Peters is
obliged to use it wholly for stock,
principally horses and chickens. It
is most excellent feed for the latter
and horses work on it as they would
on oats and they will eat the straw
readily as well as the grain. The
yield on raw sod without manure
is about twenty bushels per acre.
Sorghum in England.
An English paper says: Sorghum IS.
eacharatum) as fodder crop
especially suitable to dairy COWS, is
coming gradually but surely into use